SAP BusinessObjects Portfolio
SAP® BusinessObjects™ EDGE,
STANDARD PACKAGE
PREFERRED BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
CHOICE FOR GROWING COMPANIES
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE FOR MIDSIZE COMPANIES
SAP® BusinessObjects™ Edge software
is the business intelligence (BI) choice
for midsize companies that want to
improve business processes, discover
new opportunities, and get an advantage over the competition. It delivers
affordable solutions that address BI
requirements – from flexible ad hoc
reporting, query, and analysis to dashboards and visualization to powerful
data quality and integration.
SAP BusinessObjects Edge, standard
package, offers midsize companies an
extensive BI solution that helps them
transform the way they use information
to drive their business. The software
helps provide an intuitive BI experience
wherever and however you work – from
mobile devices and dashboards to integration within Microsoft Office. It offers
many features including:
• Flexible BI functions that you can
configure to your business
• Secure, clear, and understandable
data
• Adaptable deployment options for
faster time to value
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SAP BusinessObjects Edge, standard package,
offers midsize companies an extensive BI solution
that helps them transform the way they use
information to drive their business. The software
helps provide an intuitive BI experience wherever
and however you work – from mobile devices and
dashboards to integration within Microsoft Office.
FLEXIBLE BI TO MEET YOUR BUSINESS NEEDS
A SINGLE, AFFORDABLE PACKAGE
SAP BusinessObjects Edge, standard
package, lets you deploy and use
different business intelligence functions
to complement the way you do business.
It’s available in a single, affordable
package – so you can address the
diverse needs of business users within
your company and across your external
value chain.
Live Data Access Within
Microsoft Office
Incorporating data into presentations,
spreadsheets, and documents often
is a time-consuming task – especially
when you need updates. With
SAP BusinessObjects Edge, standard
package, your users conveniently access
and use live company data directly,
leveraging familiar tools like Microsoft
Office and Microsoft Office SharePoint
Server 2007. Because the data is live,
it’s instantly updated while retaining
all formatting and calculations in the
Microsoft Office document. Plus, your
information is secure so colleagues view
only the data they have the rights to
access – whether it’s inside the company
firewall or over an extranet deployment.
Figure 3: Complex Multidimensional Analysis
Interactive Dashboard Viewing for
Executives and Managers
Figure 1: Access to Data Live Within
a Web Browser
Ad Hoc Reporting, Query, and
Analysis for Business Users
With SAP BusinessObjects Edge,
standard package, your decision makers
can benefit from flexible ad hoc reporting, query, and analysis via the Web or
offline – without relying on IT. Using an
intuitive Web interface, business users
can access company data (presented
in business-friendly terms), analyze it
using simple point-and-click functionality,
and format it to meet personalized
requirements. Your users have considerable flexibility in how they access,
format, and interact with their data online
or offline. “Gut-feel” decisions are replaced by accurate, fact-based decisions.
and the creation of complex business
calculations. SAP BusinessObjects
Edge, standard package, gives analysts
a broad range of functions for multidimensional data sets, helping them to
quickly answer business questions and
share their analysis and work space
with others.
Figure 2: Accessing and Refreshing Data “Live”
Within Microsoft Office
Comprehensive Analysis Functionalities for Business Analysts
Business analysts spend a large
amount of time analyzing and exploring
information, requiring fast access to
large multidimensional data sources
For executives and managers,
SAP BusinessObjects Edge, standard
package, lets you deliver personalized
business dashboards and stunning
visualizations. It has intuitive pointand-click features, visual sliders, and
gauges to help business users identify
new opportunities and challenges.
What-if analysis lets managers proactively understand the impact of decisions
before they are made, potentially uncovering critical business issues and opportunities. Users can also present multiple
kinds of BI content in a single view to
receive a quick and consolidated look
at your business performance.
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Figure 4: Visual Models and Dashboards for Insight into Issues and Opportunities
Delivering Content on a Wireless
Device
SAP BusinessObjects Edge, standard
package, helps customers deliver their
content over virtually any wireless
device. Business users can drill into
data and interact with reports and
metrics to take immediate action. Customers can deploy the software quickly
with no additional servers and fully
leverage the underlying security of
SAP BusinessObjects Edge. Business
users can be notified when a new
report has been scheduled or modified.
They can also define what types of
alerts they want to receive through
their mobile device.
Advanced Report Publishing
for High-Volume, Personalized
Reporting
Customers using SAP BusinessObjects Edge now can publish personalized reports – such as invoices,
statements, and other marketing
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materials – to the first 100 recipients
in a single publishing session. An additional license is available for publishing
to more than 100 recipients. The
software supports advanced report
publishing, also known as report
bursting. This functionality allows IT
to create multiple reports based on different data sources and distribute them
to a dynamic list of recipients – all with
a single action. The reports can be
loaded with data, personalized for each
recipient, and combined into a single
file, such as a .pdf file. Content can be
optionally archived, printed, or e-mailed.
This helps you schedule reporting more
quickly and easily, and aids you in conducting more cost-effective one-on-one
marketing campaigns and other personalized high-volume report runs.
Flexible Deployment Leverages
Your Current Investments
SAP BusinessObjects Edge, standard
package, is designed for flexible deployment on a single server using Linux or
Microsoft Windows software. Its open
architecture leverages many of the data
sources, business applications, and
platforms you’ve already invested in.
For example, if your development platform of choice is Java, our solution includes a software development kit that
allows you to customize your system to
meet your specific needs. If your corporate portal is built using Microsoft
Office SharePoint Server 2007, you
can integrate BI from SAP BusinessObjects solutions and let business
users view interactive BI content within
a single environment. Regardless of
which applications you use today for
customer relationship management,
The software is available
in a single, affordable
package – so you can
address the diverse
needs of business users
within your company
and across your external
value chain.
enterprise resource planning, financial
planning, and other operations,
SAP BusinessObjects Edge, standard
package, offers flexibility to help you
leverage and extend these investments.
SECURE, CLEAR, UNDERSTANDADBLE DATA
THE RIGHT INFORMATION AT THE RIGHT TIME
With SAP BusinessObjects Edge, standard package,
your users conveniently access and use live company
data directly, leveraging familiar tools like Microsoft Office
and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.
Information is useless unless you
can access and understand it. With
SAP BusinessObjects Edge, your
business users don’t have to spend
time trying to understand the complexities of their data environment.
Your users are empowered with selfservice reporting and analysis based on
relevant, understandable information.
Part of a successful BI strategy is
ensuring that the right users have
access to the right information at the
right time. We’ve built SAP BusinessObjects Edge using a proven intelligence platform that enables secure,
managed information access for users
both inside and outside your organization. Leveraging common security
protocols like Lightweight Directory
Access Protocol, Microsoft Active
Directory, Kerberos, and those provided
in Microsoft Windows NT, you can
secure data at the user, group, object, or
even row level. Your sensitive corporate
information is protected yet accessible.
Figure 6: Secure, Role-Based Access to the
Right Data and Functionality
Figure 5: Data Presented to Users in BusinessFriendly Terms
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BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE DESIGNED
FOR SUCCESS
AN EDGE ON THE COMPETITION
With SAP BusinessObjects Edge, standard package,
your decision makers can benefit from flexible ad hoc
reporting, query, and analysis via the Web or offline –
without relying on IT.
SAP BusinessObjects Edge, standard
package, is designed to help you achieve
ongoing success. Use it to leverage
built-in system-auditing functionality
to optimize performance and promote
regulatory compliance. Our solutions
for midsize companies are quickly
becoming the preferred choice for
companies seeking to improve business
processes, discover opportunities,
and get an edge on the competition.
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By using BI software from SAP, you
can gain insight into all aspects of your
operations for improved business
performance.
For More Information
To learn more about the SAP BusinessObjects portfolio and solutions for
midsize companies, visit our Web site
at www.sap.com/sapbusinessobjects.
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